This Sunday evening at the same time my sister and her family board Jet Blue for the red eye back east, I put my oldest on the red-eye for Miami. After arriving, she boards another plane for Ecuador. It will be 8 months before I see her bright eyes, unless I manage a trip to visit. I am used to her not living at home, but not used to what is likely to be intermittent communication at best.
Then the following Wednesday, I hop a plane with my son and take him to college. So even with his spring semester test run in Italy, I am struggling with the "real" empty nest that I face this fall. It has been so busy this summer I have hardly noticed that my kids were gone most of the summer with their respective jobs. Maybe that busy feeling will continue and I won't miss their absence at the molecular level like I fear. Again I ask, where are the other parents going through this?
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Chistmas in Ecuador! Christmas in Ecuador! That's where all the cool kids will be...
I don't really think my mom is the model of most empty nesters...
You already know my struggle the the "empty nest" syndrome. You read all about it on my blog..lol
I feel as if going to Alaska is like leaving my child behind in Equador. Probably more miles, but you know what I"m talking about :-)
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